On this special Artalaap episode, Kamayani Sharma speaks to Kunsthalle Winterthur director Geraldine Tedder about writing and curating practices through the metaphor of the vestibular system.
They talk about how criticism and curating can help stabilise and situate ourselves in the contemporary, and about the many forms that the relationships between writing, speaking and listening can take.
Through of all this, they reflect together on how repairing, caring and loving can be modes of creating knowledge.
Click here to access the episode transcript.
OUR GUEST
Geraldine Tedder is a curator and writer based in Zürich. She is director of Kunsthalle Winterthur.
CREDITS
This episode was produced as part of the Art Writers’ Award 2024 residency at Villa Sträuli, Winterthur with the support of Pro Helvetia and TAKE On Art magazine.
Producer: Square Wave Studios, New Delhi
Brand design & artwork: Mohini Mukherjee
Episode graphics: Amir Bin Rafi
Transcription: Priya Thakur
Special thanks: Merly Knörle Izquierdo, Nicole Bachmann, Damian Christinger, Bibliotheken Winterthur
Additional support: Raghav Sagar
Audio courtesy: Vernouillet by Blue Dot Sessions [CCBY-NC 4.0]
LINKS
Geraldine Tedder
— 'You Are Probably Completely Oblivious That This Text Actually Is About You', 2020.
— 'Notes on Furniture' in collaboration with Chantal Kaufmann, audiobook, 2020.
Kamayani Sharma
— 'Loving with Language: Reflections on Writing Alongside Art', 2019. https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/19952/uploads/eb1d39a0-fa71-4665-bf97-6af6ec3740c1.pdf
— Book review of Arshi Ahmadzai's 'Nafas: Isolation Diaries', TAKE On Art [South Asia], 2024.
https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/19952/uploads/853acf00-eedd-4c65-b232-f7b10aaa46c4.pdf
— Artalaap Ep. 17: Tales of Silence, podcast, 2022.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Ee8hbSAE8DzWASUhrlkLc?si=E2YY4HctRSSg1z3hY6KK6Q
Other
Art Writers’ Award 2024 blog for TAKE On Art magazine:
https://takeonartmagazine.com/blog/
Kunsthalle Winterthur:
https://kunsthallewinterthur.ch/
CONTENTS
00:00 – Introduction & Context
02:00 – Defining ‘Vestibular’ & Episode Themes
03:00 – Writing, Orality, and Critical Positions
08:00 – Orality as Challenge to Print Culture
12:00 – Performativity, Misinformation & Media Forms
15:00 – Podcasting as Critical Practice
18:45 – Curatorial Conversations & Gossip as Subversion
21:45 – Oral Histories & Restoring Lost Voices
24:30 – Care in Curating & Opening Processes
28:30 – Breaking Down Curatorial Authority
29:45 – Spatial Metaphors & the Vestibular
36:45 – Erotics, Love, and Reparative Reading
42:00 – The Transcript as Inter-Script
45:00 – Collaborative Writing & Challenging Structures
46:45 – Demystifying Institutional Realities
48:00 – Closing & Reflections
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